Amy L. Hill 434-996-3938811 Monticello Avenue amyh@acac.comCharlottesville, VA 22902

EXPERIENCE:Employed as a Graphic Designer, Marketing & Advertising Professional since 1989. Extensive experience with: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop. Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office Suite, and web-based search and informational tools. Provide digital photography as needed. Creative Director & Graphic Designer, Legacy Management Group/acac Fitness & Wellness Centers, 2007 – present. Since 2010, serve as Creative Director, reporting directly to VP of Marketing. Responsibilities include coordinating centralized marketing efforts at acac corporate offices and regulating use of our corporate logo, tagline, branding parameters, and implementation of our style guide. Design and implement large format graphic displays, from trade show exhibits to window displays.Design and implement all branded permanent interior and exterior signs and displays in club locations.Operate in-house large format printer (42” wide HP Designjet Z6200), fielding and facilitating requests from five club locations.Produce high quality fliers, forms, business cards, stationery items, postcards, brochures, booklets, etc. on demand for a variety of programming initiatives, and coordinate production of materials in-house and through local and online vendors. Marketing development & support for acac’s Physician Referred Exercise Program ( p.r.e.p.®), and internationally-recognized and award-winning medial fitness programming initiative developed by acac that brings non-traditional participants into regular exercise. Worked with acac’s Medical Directors on converting smaller, site-based independent programming to a company-wide centralized model and developing p.r.e.p.® into a licensed, scalable business initiative. Served 2007-2010 as acac’s Graphic Designer for Visual Displays, overseeing design and implementation of branded two- and three-dimensional displays, signage, and special projects for fitness clubs, interior and exterior. Projects include interactive displays, durable exterior marketing signage and location signage. Amy L. Hill Graphic Design, Charlottesville, VA, 1996 – present. Free-lance design and illustration firm specializing in publication layout and production of full-color printed and digitally conveyed materials. Strengths and vast experience in full-color print advertising, adapting branding and print themes for use across digital media, CD and DVD packaging, newsletters, corporate communication materials, marketing support, visual merchandising, signage, exhibits, web site development; custom spot illustrations, newsletters and newspaper layout are specialties. Extensive experience in photo and document restoration, photo montage and retouching; illustration; color correction and digital production technologies. 

Current & past community involvementBoard Member, Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center, 2012 -15), Darden Towe Park. Recruited to help with publications, marketing, PR, graphic design, facilitating signage and exhibits for the future new Center. Entered board service at crucial time, during a Capital Campaign and LCEC’s transition from its residence in a barn to a permanent custom-built Center on the Rivanna River. Tom Tom Founders Festival Production Principal, February 2013 - present Served as production lead on the art/music/innovation civic festival’s 2013 & 14 “Picnic Day in Lee Park” events, all-day, outdoor event featuring live music, food and libation vendors, arts and innovation exhibitors. Served as liaison to City Parks and Rec officials, managed event security staffing, vendors, volunteers. Picnic Day was one of the best attended, top-grossing events of TTFF 2013 & 14. Music Resource Center Party Like a Rock Star 2012 - present Worked with planning and coordination leads to create and install custom, themed large format graphics for the annual fundraiser. Center for Non-Profit Excellence Board Development Academy, Class of 2012. Participating in classes designed to provide training to a new generation of organizational board leaders. Curriculum teaches general knowledge about boards, governance theory, the history of non-profits, the board’s role and the development of strategic board service skills. City Schoolyard Garden, Buford Middle School & Elementary School sites, 2011-present. Assisting with brochures, logo development, outreach materials. Helping in transition from one school site to multi-site organizational model. ziMS Field of Dreams Gala, 2010. Organizing committee member for Charlottesville’s local fundraiser for Washington Nationals (former UVa Cavalier) third baseman Ryan Zimmerman’s Multiple Sclerosis research charity. Designed event decor, designed and coordinated production of event sponsorship packages, programs, and multimedia displays, produced large-format sponsor recognition displays. Citizens for Jefferson School, 2001-2003, and present. Part of a grassroots effort to properly recognize and preserve the historic significance of the former Black high school and its site, and laying the foundation for the creation of the Jefferson School City Center (opened 2012). Helped coordinate a variety activist groups with ties to the school into a cohesive influence that challenged redevelopment plans of the property. Efforts resulted Jefferson School being placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, an oral history project, and appropriate redevelopment of the building and property. Continue this service with volunteer hours at the new Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. EDUCATION: Bachelors of Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, June 1987 REFERENCES: upon request